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becalmed, and much troubled with contrary winds, 
i'o that we lay beating from fide to fide about nine 
days in the Straits,_yet we did not fee twenty iflands 
the whole time, and thefe none of them very large. 
Whereas, was captain Middleton’s hypothecs true, 
and they were fome hundred of years diflolving, and 
traveling into the latitude of 50°, they could not 
have got by this time quite out of Hudlbn’s Straits, 
much more out of the Straits of Davis. 
We were, by my account, abreaft of Cape Fare- 
well on the 26th ; about which time we were taken 
with very rough, and contrary winds, with which 
we were troubled almoft all the way till we got 
abreaft of Ireland. 
h October the 7th, P. M. being by account in 
long. 1 8° 57' W. or by my laft obfervation in 
long. 1 9 0 38', and lat. 52 0 io' N. I had the follow- 
ing obfervations for determining the longit. of the 
fhip. 
Dili. D&o 
nearrft L’s. 
Mr. Wcod 
O’* L. L. 
J. D. 
1 ) 's Cent. 
86° 6' 
17° 2 
«o" 39 
8 
l6 40 
10 57 
81 
l6 30 
1 1 8 
10 
l6 3 
1 1 27 
IO 
15 50 
11 38 
1' muft be fubtra£led from the dis- 
tances, 3' from the D ’s alt. ; but o 
from the fun’s, for the errors of the 
quadrants ; and 3' 34" from the O'* 
alt. and 3' 18" from the i ’s for the 
dip of the horizon. The long, from 
thefe obfervations comes out =18* 
59 ' iW. 
$ October the 9th. About 20 h we ftruck found- 
ings in 87 fathom water : the bottom fine white fand. 
The 10th at 2i h made the Scilly light-houfe from 
the maft-head ; and at noon it bore diredtly north, 
by true card ; the (hip being in long. 5* 40' W. by 
my 
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